Brendan Keenan: Public sector anger has led to Trump-like rejection of elite

Brendan Keenan: Public sector anger has led to Trump-like rejection of elite

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COULD it happen here? That was the question after the Brexit vote and, especially, the Trump victory. To which the answer might be: it already has. Like Tolstoy on marriages, every country shows its unhappiness in its own way.

COULD it happen here? That was the question after the Brexit vote and, especially, the Trump victory. To which the answer might be: it already has. Like Tolstoy on marriages, every country shows its unhappiness in its own way.

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Brendan Keenan: Public sector anger has led to Trump-like rejection of elite

Independent.ie

COULD it happen here? That was the question after the Brexit vote and, especially, the Trump victory. To which the answer might be: it already has. Like Tolstoy on marriages, every country shows its unhappiness in its own way.

The United States is effectively a two-horse race for the presidency, and anything can happen in a two-horse race.

In Britain, the horses have to be "first-past-the-post," which is normal in horse races but peculiar in elections. It is reckoned that, under a PR system, the right-wing UKIP would have won 83 seats in the last poll. Instead, it got one.

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